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Source: NPR "Talk of the Nation"

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Book Weighs Cultural Effects of Climate Change [18min]

Eugene Linden, author of The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilization, talks about how climate change could change civilization. From the Mayan empire to the Vikings, civilizations have risen and fallen, he argues, in large part because of the climate.

Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"